Sam Shepard Quotes
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More than anything, falling in love causes a certain female thing in a man to manifest, oddly enough.
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I have a cellphone, but I have no Google, I have no gaggle.
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My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.
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Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery.
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Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.
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I think Bolano had a generosity about him that was unique. He seemed to include so many people in the circle of his adventures, whereas I felt like I was pretty selfish.
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Dialogue is like jazz. Dialogue is creative.
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I've been into horses as far back as I can remember. There is a particular kind here in America called the 'quarter horse' that I'm very interested in.
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I don't belong much anywhere.
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I've always found it embarrassing to receive awards.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.
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I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.
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I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form.
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I used to work a lot on ranches where I grew up, and I had to rise at 5:30 in the morning.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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I think most writers, in a sense, have this desire to disappear, to be absolutely anonymous, to be removed in some way: that comes out of the need to be a writer.
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On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film.